The Palindromist Magazinehttp://palindromist.org
Wary, alpine zen -- I play raw!
enABBA Museumhttp://palindromist.org/node/1071
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>(I wish I knew how to do the backwards B like they do in their logo!)</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1560734/abba-museum-opens-in-sweden">new museum</a> dedicated to the world's most famous palindromic group opened recently in Stockholm. It mostly seems to consist of ultra-tight disco clothing, though you can also sing along with life-sized holograms of the band and download the image to your <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/06/entertainment-us-abba-idUSBRE9450I620130506">"web account,</a>" whatever that is. As they say on <a href="http://www.abbathemuseum.com/">the official website</a>, "Köp biljett och boka tid för ditt besök."</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 07 May 2013 07:05:45 +0000bigboss1071 at http://palindromist.orghttp://palindromist.org/node/1071#commentsUSA Today on the SymmyShttp://palindromist.org/node/1068
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Nice recap at USA Today:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/popcandy/2013/03/11/palindromes-symmys/1978723/">SymmyS award the best new palindromes</a></p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:57:02 +0000bigboss1068 at http://palindromist.orghttp://palindromist.org/node/1068#commentsThe Times of London hops on the bandwagonhttp://palindromist.org/node/1062
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>You're once, twice, three "Times" a Symmy....</p>
<p>The Times of London joined the New York Times and Time Magazine. Soon to follow -- Time Out and the Grateful Dead song "High Time," cause it got confused.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3709169.ece">Avid diva won’t be alone at palindrome awards night</a></p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 07:16:39 +0000bigboss1062 at http://palindromist.orghttp://palindromist.org/node/1062#commentsNew York Times on the Symmyshttp://palindromist.org/node/1061
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Another great preview from the NYT. This was a particularly funny line:</p>
<p>"The awards are organized by the Palindromist Magazine, which bills itself as “the world’s leading palindrome periodical,” in case you’re looking to narrow your subscription choices."</p>
<p><a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/a-magazine-a-plan-a-contest-symmys/">A Magazine, A Plan, A Contest - Symmys!</a></p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:03:10 +0000bigboss1061 at http://palindromist.orghttp://palindromist.org/node/1061#commentsTime Magazine previews the SymmyShttp://palindromist.org/node/1060
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"<a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/06/madam-im-adam-palindrome-masters-go-head-to-head-in-championship/">Palindrome Masters Go Head To Head in Championship"</a> by Katie Steinmetz. </p>
<p>Great quote from judge "Weird Al" Yankovic: “The writing of a brilliant palindrome is a small miracle, and that, I think, deserves to be honored more than a lot of the stupid and inconsequential things we often celebrate in our culture.”</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:57:34 +0000bigboss1060 at http://palindromist.orghttp://palindromist.org/node/1060#commentsSymmyS Awards in Portland Sundayhttp://palindromist.org/node/1059
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The SymmyS Awards ceremony will be in Portland, Oregon on Sunday, March 10th (3/10/2013). It will be at the Funhouse Art and Beer Cabaret, SE 11th &amp; Division, 8-9pm.</p>
<p>Comedian Dax Jordan will headline the live show, World Palindrome Champion Mark Saltveit will MC, and Michael Shoehorn Conley will perform on saxophone. Videos by celebrity judges They Might Be Giants, "Weird Al" and Jackie Kashian, and of course the presentation of all 40 new palindromes and announcement of the winners.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:46:37 +0000bigboss1059 at http://palindromist.orghttp://palindromist.org/node/1059#commentsSymmys Judges Announcedhttp://palindromist.org/node/1058
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The first annual Symmys Awards for best palindromes of 2012 has a stunning lineup of wordplay celebrities, just announced. The 9 judges are:</p>
<p>Will Shortz, NPR’s Puzzle Master and New York Times’ Crossword Editor</p>
<p>Weird Al Yankovic – musical comedy legend, and creator/singer of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4">the palindromic classic "Bob"</a></p>
<p>Demitri Martin – Comedian, author and palindromist. Demetri's new book <a href="www.amazon.com/Point-Your-Face-This-Drawings/dp/1455512052/">POINT YOUR FACE AT THIS</a> comes out on March 19th.</p>
<p>Jackie Kashian - very funny comedian (Conan, Comedy Central, Nick at Nite) and host of popular podcast <a href="http://tdf.libsyn.com/">'The Dork Forest'</a></p>
<p>John Flansburgh, half of the Grammy-winning band "They Might Be Giants," who are best known -- in these parts anyway -- for their classic song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTZiiwcNImo">"I Palindrome I"</a></p>
<p>Ben Zimmer – executive producer of <a href="http://www.visualthesaurus.com">VisualThesaurus.com</a> and <a href="http://www.vocabulary.com">Vocabulary.com</a>, language columnist for The Boston Globe, and former "On Language" columnist for The New York Times Magazine.</p>
<p>Jack Rosenthal, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (New York Times),</p>
<p>Tim Imit, editor of <a href="http://www.mockok.com/">MockOK.com</a>, the biggest website for new palindromes,</p>
<p> and Jeff Grant, New Zealand palindrome legend (Word Ways Magazine).</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:56:03 +0000bigboss1058 at http://palindromist.orghttp://palindromist.org/node/1058#commentsNEW - The 5th Annual SymmyS Award Winnershttp://palindromist.org/symmys
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A cartoon collaboration won the Grand Prize in the 5th annual SymmyS Awards for outstanding palindrome achievement. Lori Wike's palindrome would have been a strong contender in the short category even without Jon Agee's deft cartoon:<br /><b>"Ned, I am no rigid Imam. I dig Iron Maiden."</b></p>
<p>Peter "Twoply" Sabra had 7 nominations, taking both first and second place in the Short category. His winner described a tragic "Safari": <br /><b>Amy met a tiger -- 'Greg, it ate my Ma!'</b><br />
Sabra's "Thoughtful People" -- a collaboration with the mysterious Anne Tenna -- was the runner up:<br /><b>Dee wondered: no pot? <br />
Tot Otto pondered: no weed?</b><br />
Tenna, solo, took third place with the saga of "Jaded Nita"<br /><b>Goddesses bored Nita, a Tinder-obsessed dog.</b><br />
and also won the Long Category with this gendered musing:<br /><b>Nemo, what can a damsel do on a canoe? Leona canoodles, mad -- an act. Ah, women!</b></p>
<p>Martin Clear, recently crowned as World Palindrome Champion, took both 2nd and 3rd place in the Long category, with an epic 357-word list of Santa's lingerie gifts and this declaration (respectively):<br /><b><br />Name remade, reborn! <br />
I, delivered, am made reborn. <br />
I again am a dog, a god, a man. <br />
I again, robe red, am made reviled. <br />
In robe red, a mere man.</b></p>
<p>Clear also topped the Poetry category, topping two longer efforts by Mike Maguire with his poem "Orca:"</p>
<p><b>Across a moat<br />
Still it swam<br />
Still I fed it<br />
Wolf of low tide<br />
Fill its maw<br />
Still its tao mass:</b></p>
<p>Orca.</p>
<p>And finally, in the Word by Word category, Professor John Connett prevailed with this thoughtful line:<br /><b>Human being, of fearful nature - fearful of being human. </b></p>
<p>The Wike/Agee cartoon was the clear favorite for the grand prize; Clear's Orca poem and Agee's Koala panel cartoon tied for second.<br /><img src="/images/Wike%20Agee%20iron%20Maiden.png" /></p>
<p>Every year, the SymmyS Awards recognize the best new palindromes in several categories. They are the Oscars of palindromy. The 2017 (5th) SymmyS were announced on Palindrome Day, 7/10/2017.</p>
<p>The SymmyS are organized by The Palindromist Magazine, the world's greatest palindrome zine since 1996. Issue #8, Competitions, is out now.</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:10:41 +0000bigboss1056 at http://palindromist.orghttp://palindromist.org/symmys#commentsWelcomehttp://palindromist.org/home
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Welcome to the home of The Palindromist, a long running print magazine (since 1996) about palindromes and the people who write them. Click the pictures above to see palindromes, find out about the magazine and books we publish, or hear about talks by editor and palindrome expert Mark Saltveit. You can join the conversation in our <a href="http://www.palindromist.org/forum">discussion forum</a>: share your palindromes, discuss famous ones or how to write them, or talk about other fun kinds of wordplay. Or check out general information below.<br /></p>
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<a href="palindromes"> - The Palindromist Manifesto</a></p>
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<a href="authors"> - The Authors List of Great Palindromes</a>, a selective list of the best palindromes which gives credit to the gifted palindromists who created them.</p>
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<a href="sotades"> - Sotades the Obscene of Maronea (275 BC) - Inventor of the Palindrome</a></p>
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<a href="political"> - Political Palindromes</a></p>
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<a href="chronotype"> - "A Chronotype of Revolution:"</a><br />
a scholarly paper on palindromes in Russia and Eastern Europe by Erika Greber of the University of Munich.</p>
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<a href="/contact">- Click on the Contact form </a>to send email, submit your palindromes, or whine. </p>
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<a href="http://www.mockok.com">Tim's MockOK pages</a> (The commentaries are especially good)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.verbatimmag.com/">Verbatim Magazine</a> a great general wordplay magazine<br /><br /><a href="http://www.spinelessbooks.com/2002/palindrome/">"2002: A Palindrome Story" by Nick Montfort and William Gillespie -- an epic, 2002-word palindrome<br /><br /></a><a href="http://www.spinelessbooks.com/2002/book/index.html">Buy the printed book of "2002: A Palindrome Story"</a> at <a href="http://www.spinelessbooks.com">Spineless Books</a><br /><br /><a href="http://norvig.com/palindrome.html">Peter Norvig's computer generated, 17,000-word expansion of "A man, a plan, a canal...."</a> How does he do it? Well, turns out he's the Director of Research for Google. So dude knows a thing or two about computer arrays.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.brownielocks.com/palindromes.html">Palindrome Fun by Brownielocks</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.megaera.org/palindromes.html">Page O'Palindromes!</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.derf.net/palindromes/">Neil/Fred's Gigantic List of Palindromes</a> (no longer maintained)<br /><br /><a href="http://language21c.com/eng/resources/languages/palindrome.php">Vote for your favorite palindrome.</a></p>
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